Gudrun Dahlkvist studied in Stockholm and Paris and has over a decade of high-level professional experience on the Swedish and French music scenes. Just turned 30, she is an orchestral leader to watch.

Photo: Gustaf Elias

Photo: Gustaf Elias

 

Gudrun has conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, Malmö Opera and Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra in professional engagements (which she will return to) and coming season she will debut in Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wermland Opera and Gävle Symphony Orchestra. Her rapidly spreading reputation has led to recent bookings from Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

Gudrun was born in Stockholm and studied violin at the Royal College of Music in her native city and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, before beginning her conducting studies in Sweden with B. Tommy Andersson. As a freelance violinist, she appeared in a concertmaster position with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, while regularly guesting with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. 

The season 22/23 she will be mentoree conductor at Helsingborgs Konserthus.

Adding to her burgeoning experience with symphony orchestras, Gudrun recently made her professional opera debut at Malmö Opera.

Her repertoire ranges from early to contemporary music and her varied experience in professional orchestral settings has equipped her with unusually sharp communicative abilities and taught her efficient rehearsal strategies.

In 2019, Gudrun was awarded Musik i Linköping’s biennial Crusell Stipend for a conductor of extraordinary talent aswell as Vattnäs Culture Stipend. In 2020, she was awarded with Swedish Royal Academy of Music National Award, and in 2022 Jubelfondens Stipendium. She signed to Nordic Artists Management in 2020.

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Västerbottens-kuriren

About Concert at NorrlandsOperan 20 May 2021 with Amalie Stahlheim, cello:

“Gudrun Dahlkvist hade ett ordentligt och entusiasmerande grepp om stråkarna“

 
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Vattnäs Konsertlada - Dalarna

“The orchestral contributions were seriously good: Elgar's Serenade for Strings, with exactly the right suppleness in the lines, and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, conducted - though I couldn't see her - by the orchestra's leader Gudrun Dahlkvist.”

The Arts Desk - David Nice, Saturday, 27 July 2019